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AIRF RCE March 13, 2014 Sp rtp From Back Page “Considering that was my return to the sport after three years away, I was reasonably happy,” FLTLT Monaghan said. He was one of 13 Australian ning backdrop of Jervis Bay Marine Park, more than 5000 athletes compete in events in three days of colour, noise and movement. Defence Sports Triathlon Association (ADSTA) athletes – two from Air Force, five from Army, one US Army and four Navy – competing in the long-course triathlon at the Jervis Bay Triathlon festival. It is a huge event. With the stun- In a race within a race, the performances of the ADF athletes were used to decide the ADSTA long-course championship on the last day of the festival. The men’s championship winner was CFN Andrew Emmerich and the women’s winner was WO2 Megan Webber. The other RAAF member compet- ing, FLTLT Andrew Fisher, recorded 4:49.37. It was a sparkling day at Huskisson, even early in the morning when FLTLT Monaghan’s swim leg started. With 1200 people in the race, it was impossible for them all to start together. Rather, they started in 12 age divisions in intervals over a bit more than two hours. It is FLTLT Monaghan’s favour- ite leg. When he was a schoolboy in Victoria he was an accomplished freestyle swimmer. But there are no such things as orderly swimming lanes in triathlon. Even though there were only about 50 people in his age 25-29 group, it was everyone for himself or herself as the 22 degree-warm water was churned up in a frenzy of swimmers. “I was about fifth out of the water but my bike leg isn’t so good,” said FLTLT Monaghan, whose coach is No. 23 Triathlete back into the fray after a three-year break 2 Operational Conversion Unit colleague FLTLT Jason Cross. “I lost ground there, but made some up in the run.” All in all, a good day’s work: 4hr, 30min and 11sec for the 2km swim, 83km cycle and 20km run. But that was just a loosener. FLTLT Monaghan’s next challenge is the ironman triathlon in Melbourne on March 23. That entails a 3.8km swim, 180km bike ride and 42.2km run. IN BRIEF With a little help from our friends AIR Force staged a stunning fightback with the help of some Army ring-ins to beat Navy 43-40 in the second annual King’s Cup basketball championship. The combined Air Force and Army team had trailed by 10 points at half-time. The match was the curtainraiser to the Sydney Kings versus Wollongong Hawks National Basketball League game at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on February 15. Four Air Recruitment drive takes off T HE Air Force women’s team’s assignment for the ADF championships in May just got harder, but they’ve been here before. Until a few years ago, Air Force could only field four or five players for the service championships. With that not being enough to form a team, they had to play as part of the Navy team in Navy jerseys. That changed on May 22, 2010, when the then CAF and now VCDF, AIRMSHL Mark Binskin, announced that Air Force would play in their own colours the following year. It was a mighty task but FLTLT Margie Quinn and her cohorts started a big recruiting campaign and found enough players to field a 10s team in 2011. In a fairytale outcome, Air Force Rugby Union (AFRU) women won the 2011 ADF championship – beating Navy in 10s, wearing new sky-blue jerseys with pink piping, then combining with Navy in a two-Blues team to beat Army in 15-a-side rugby. This has been the setup for three years, but at the ASRU annual meeting recently Navy announced it wanted to compete as a 15s side, and Army said it wanted to play Navy and Air Force individually. The clock is ticking to find enough Air Force players, once again. Air Force will hold a weeklong training camp at RAAF Base Richmond from May 9 and the service championship will be held at the University of NSW field in Sydney from May 18. If the championships were held today, Air Force would have a pool of 16 or 17 active players from which to draw. But that’s probably not enough, given that some of those players might have work commitments. “We really need a pool of 20-25 players,” FLTLT Quinn said. “We knew this was coming – just not this soon, so it was a surprise.” The team in its short life has become one of Air Force’s most successful sporting teams.  IT HAS beaten Navy at the championships for the past three years to win the Margie Quinn Cup, named in honour of the Flight Lieutenant who has earnt admiration from both teams for her work on and off the field.  IT HAS combined with Navy to beat Army for two of the past three years, suffering its first defeat last year.  IT HAS produced players who have become part of national teams which draw most of its players from civilian clubs. CPL Brooke Saunders is a member of the Wallaroos and recently attended a camp in Canberra aimed at preparing for the 15s World Cup in France in August. The team’s other national representative is OFFCDT Rachel Crothers, who is a member of the Australia sevens team which is on its own World Cup campaign – winning two of the first three legs, in Dubai and Brazil, and finishing third in the other, Atlanta. FLTLT Quinn is proud of that. “AFRU-W now has a committed core of women who want to play rugby for the Air Force, and people like OFFCDT Crothers, CPL Saunders and LACW Lucinda Tomlinson, who was selected for Australian Services Rugby Union (ASRU) in the first year she played for AFRU and was the run-on blindside winger in our ASRU British tour last year, are impressive examples of girls who have tried rugby and excelled at it.” The size of the task ahead, however, is not lost on CPL Saunders, an aircraft technician from No. 1 Squadron, who knows the process well. In 2009-10, she was captain of the Air Force women’s touch football team and rugby wasn’t even on her radar. The day she saw the call for SOLID CORE: LACW Lucinda Tomlison, left, and CPL Brooke Saunders at RAAF Base Amberley; inset, FLTLT Margie Quinn with the trophy. Photos: CPL Jessica de Rouw, CPL David Gibbs. Force players – LAC Kevin O’Sullivan, LAC Shaun Wheatley and LAC Scott Benyon, of RAAF Base Williamtown, and Adrian Duran, of RAAF Base Richmond – combined with five soldiers to form the team, playing in Air Force singlets and coached THE SPOILS: FLTLT Janeter Turnbull accepts the trophy. by SQNLDR Janeter Turnbull, also of Williamtown. Navy led 36-26 at half-time but Air Force scored four three-pointers to snatch the lead. LAC O’Sullivan, who helped to block Navy’s desperate bid for victory just as the full-time buzzer sounded, said the win was amazing. “I still can’t believe it,” he said. Futsal sharpens skills As deadline looms, rugby women start a new recruitment drive, John Martin reports. expressions of interest for the AFRU team on a base information circular changed her life. “I rang FLTLT Quinn and she sent me more information,” CPL Saunders said. She can hardly believe where it’s taken her since. Last year she was elevated to the position of AFRU women’s 10s captain. If she makes the cut for France, she will be pinching herself. Meanwhile, it’s back to the future for FLTLT Quinn. When AFRU women played under their own steam in 2011 she was team captain and was a tad embarrassed to receive a trophy named after herself. She still holds down a place in the front row but is no longer captain. “I’m not much of a player,” she said, though her record would seem to contradict this. She has been chosen for higher duties with the ASRU team five times. What we can be sure of is she will take up this latest challenge with gusto. She has form with enlisting her teammates and fellow AFRU administrators to spread the word. Be warned: no noticeboard, publication or conversation will be safe. For more information, email FLTLT Margie Quinn at margaret.quinn@ defence.gov.au SEVEN Air Force players who will turn out for Air Force later this year at the ADF soccer championships sharpened their skills at the triservice futsal men’s championship in Sydney on March 1. Futsal is a relatively new ADF sport that features similar rules to outdoor soccer but involves only five-a-side who play two 20-minute halves. It is played on a pitch about the size of a basketball court. Air Force lost 7-1 to Navy, 9-1 to Defence APS and 4-2 to Army. But team captain CPL Dion Johnston said it was a good hit out for a team that had not played together before and good lead-in to the ADF soccer championships. “Three of our players from today will appear in the men’s over-35s, while four will play in the men’s opens,” he said. Gearing up for NSW tenpin titles THE NSW interservice tenpin bowling tournament will be held at the Rooty Hill tenpin bowling centre from March 27-28. This competition is open to all permanent/reserve members of the ADF serving in NSW. The NSW state ADF team will be picked on March 28, with the 16 bowlers with the highest scratch pinfall after 10 games earning a place in the NSW team to play in the ADF national tournament in Victoria mid-year. For further information, contact LCDR Steven Reynolds at steven.reynolds@defence. gov.au or (02) 9926 2555. Military Plaques Ph: 07 5495 8259 • History Plaques & Boxes •Sculptures Now stocking •Hat Badges •Desk Name Plates •Unit Plaques Noel &Sheralyn Vellnagel P.O. Box 1258 , Morayfi eld Qld 4506 sales@spitpolished.com.au SPIT POLISHED PRESENTATIONS www.spitpolished.com.au